The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-13
ITEMS OFINTEREST.
a LARGE peanut crop blocked for this year


DURING the last week in August Rolla, Mo,
lost by death three citizens whose combined
ages sum up 246 years.
RUSSIAN an wheat planted he northwestern
British provinces shows that it natures before
the frost and will be of great vaue to that re-
gion.
ONE of the rare productions of Jackson
county, Michigan, is a white rattesnake with
seven rattles. 1t belongs to RicArd Crouch,
and is quite tame.
Mr. BuEKEMANN, of Jefferson count, Missouri,
caught in two weeks four fish that weighed IA
pounds-first one weighed 20 pounds, tecond 70,
third 10, and the fourth "a.
THE Oldest known paintings in Enland are
portraits of Chaucer and Henry ". Tie por-
| trait of the former is on panel, and WIS exc
cuted about 1880; that of Henry ~. was tainted
| in 1905.
THE old compass which was used in SURVIVING
| Iroquois county as far back as 1892, is o, ex-
hibition in a show window of Alters drug sore
| at WatSeka. 1t is the property of Mrs. Robrt-
son. of Watseka. II
JOHN HILL. the Norwegian king of Grunly
| county. Illinois, Cancelled his contracts wih
| farm tenants at 81 cash rent per acre and will
take in lieu half Of the corn they raise, which
| viii not be much.
Life estimates the number Of American vis
tors to England this year at 10000. 1t places the
average expenditure of each American tourist
at t100, resulting in benefit to English trades
| people OF over $i,0OO,O0O.
| THERE is said to be BARRIERS sign near the Pa
lais Royal, in Paris, bearing the legend in the
vernacular, "Callileucocapillaire water which
colors the hair white. For the use of magis
trates and young physicians"
| THE London Economist estimates that there
are S., 000,0 100000 of coin in the present circua
ton of the world or available for circulation.
| OF this magnificent total, $500 0O0, 900 is in
gold and 1880 900, 600 in silver
A COLONY of negroes is going to Shasta, Cal,
| to settle on 900 acres of land above Single
town, which has been purchased for that .pur-
| pose The colonistS will come under the lead
ershlp of a minister named Petty.
THERE is a hotel in Sugar Hill, in the White
Mountains, where the night Waterman and
| clerk are both divinity students, and the scrub
| girl has been for five years teacher In public
| school and speaks French and Latin.
N. H. WILSON, of MERGED, Cal, has just re-
ceived some Egyptian wheat 1900 years old,
| which was found in the coffin of an Egyptian
| prince while unrolling the mummy. Prof.
Gilden, of Boston, brought the wheat to the
| United States in 1850
Mrs JAMES FERGUSON, of Chester county,
| Pennsylvania, couldn't imagine what was steal
| ing her young chickens, until she happened to
see big frog from pond near the barnyard
| catch a chick and jump into the water with ii.
| The pond was drained, many frogs were killed,
and the little chickens are safe.
AT the Terre Haute polytechnic the other day
experiments were made to ascertain just what
a snail's pace is Half a dozen of these slow
| goers were permitted to crawl between two
| points ten feet apart and the average pace was
| ascertained. It was calculated that a snail can
| crawl a mile in just fourteen days.
| SIXTY thousand orange trees are on their way
to California from Japan, where they were
shipped on board of an English bark in the
| harbOr of Yokohama about two weeks ago.
| With them also comes miscellaneous assert
ment of over 80, 600 trees and shrubs, indigenous
| to Japan, which it is proposed to acclimatize in
| California.
| SEVERAL weeks ago T. j. Male of Elsberry,
| Mo-, had his cistern cleaned out ready for the
| first rain that should fall. 1t remained dry for
some time, until just after the earthquake, when
| it was found to contain bountiful supply of
living water It is an old well and as it never cut
| such an antic before, it is supposed the earth
| quake did 1t.
| THE church of Santa Bonosa, in Rome, stu
| ated between the Via Lungaretta and the Tiber,
4 will soon be demolished in the course of the
| work of improvement now going on along the
II Tiber quay. The church is said by some writers
I to contain the tomb of Cola di Rienz the last
/ of the Tribunes, statement the truth or
untrIth of which has never been definitely as
certainei.
| In Sydney, Australia, roughs of the streets
| are called 'larrikns'' The name came from
| the reply of policeman who was asked by the
| court what there was against the prisoner whom
he had arrested. Just larrikin about the
shtrates yer Honor. - was the reply of the off
Ger, who was an Irishman. From that time dis
| orderly conduct was termed larriking and the
| rough was called larrikin.
ONToNAGoN, Mich, has baseball dog He
| can judge sky-scraper as accurately as any
professional, and is much surer CATCH while
| liners and daisy cutters are simply his veal. He
| has been known to jump five and half feet
| to nail hot one, and his pickups are the ad-
miration of town. Had he eight equally pro-
| ficient companions, and were they able to bat,
it would make the strongest aggregation in the
| country.
In Pilgrims Progress" as translated into
Japanese and illustrated by native artists, Chris
tan has close-shaven Mongolian head Vanity
| Fair is a feast of lanterns with popular Japa-
| nese amusements, the dungeon of Giant Despair
| is one of those large wooden cages in which
| Eastern criminals are confined, and the angels
| waiting to receive the pilgrims the further
side of the bridgeless river are dressed in Yoko-
| hama fashion.
A TEMPERATURE of 57Oo will produce dark
blue color on polished steel, and 500 a pale
blue. Oil or grease of any kind will answer for
drawing the temper of cutlery. The temper for
lancets is obtained at 1902 Fahr., axes at 5000
| swords and watch springs at $500, small saws at
| 500, and large saws at $500. Copper-colored
| spots are not produced by tempering but they
may be obtained on the polished surface of
steel by immersing the article in a solution of
sulphate of copper.
The Rio Netcs gives this picture of social OBJ
servances in Brazil: "Some one has recently
ventured to protest against the practice of
smoking in the theatres during the progress of
| the play. 1t is gross piece of impoliteness of
| course, but then what can be donei There Is
no place exempt from the practice of smoking,
and there is no one so inconsiderate and selfish
as the habitual smoker. We doubt whether
there is any place in the world where there is
less real polteness than in Rio de Janeiro.
A LIQUID invented by NJ. Raoul Pictet, for use
as disnfectant, answers well as freezing
mixture for hardening microscopic specimens
Sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide having
| been mixed and cooled. are compressed until
| they are liquid, and stored in sypnons. When
liberated they rapidly evaporate. with great re-
duction of temperature. BY this means mer
| curry may be frozen, and animal or vegetable
tissues rendered solid in few seconds. IL is
easily managed and more effective than ether,
the odor being the principal objection
MR.. BALTERHAM, of Asheville n c., thinks
that be has very intelligent Newfoundland
dog. He says that after her four pups had be-
come large enough TO wean he gave one away.
and few DAYS afterward, pointing to another
| pup, said, with some emphasis: Tomorrow
! am going to give that one 10 Mr. Biank " The